City officials were a bit confused this year when the Census came back and showed the city had grown by just 166,855, so of course Mayor Bloomberg demanded a recount. Some of the most suspicious data showed that neighborhoods like the West Village and Upper East Side lost housing units; City Councilwoman Gail Brewer told the Daily News, "That's crazy. It doesn't make any sense to me, like the rest of the census." However, it might just be the doorman's fault. You're off the hook, hipsters! more ›

Recount! According to the 2010 Census data, New York's population grew by just 166,855 over the past decade to 8.175 million. But a previous Census estimate put the city's population at 8.3 million, and Senator Chuck Schumer thinks someone fudged the numbers. "These numbers cry out for investigation," he said. "I'm going to put a lot of pressure on them to do it. For the census director to just shrug his shoulders ... isn't good enough." more ›

The New York City Board of Elections just finished recounting our votes from the Nov. 2 election, and "found" the nearly 200,000 ballots that they didn't know were missing, reports the Times. That's about 17 percent of the total votes cast, which translates to 1 vote left uncounted out of every 6. And if you voted in Queens, there was a 1 in 3 chance the the ballot wasn't counted, with a whopping 80,000 uncounted ballots found in the borough alone. Though the city spent millions to introduce the new optical scan voting machines (as required by law) this year, it turns out all the trappings of modern technology disappeared right after voters left. more ›

We have our own protracted election drama in the city: The Board of Elections is still counting ballots in the State Senate race between incumbent Frank Padavan (R) and City Councilman James Gennaro (D). Padavan leads by over 500 votes now, but now over 8,000 absentee and emergency paper ballots are being tallied amid charges from the Democratic Party like how the Republicans are only challenging votes of minority voters. (A judge will eventually decided what happens with the ballot.) Well, at least our BOE doesn't have to deal with the Senate recount in Minnesota--they use Scantron-style voting forms and some voters were messy-- or wrote in "Lizard People" while still filling in a circle for Al Franken. See the zany ballots here. more ›